In an interview with Maria Kądzielska-Koper for Do Rzeczy, Michał Owerczuk discussed technological sovereignty and the strategic necessity of establishing a dedicated Ministry of Artificial Intelligence in Poland. Speaking from his background producing films in an AI pipeline for several years, Owerczuk explained that not every nation needs to be number one in frontier models such as GPT, Claude, or Gemini, whose training requires hundreds of millions of dollars.
Instead, Owerczuk emphasized that Poland must win the race for adaptation, implementation, and operational sovereignty. He pointed out that open-source models like Mistral, Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek offer practical tools that can be tailored and deployed across public administration, industry, energy, and defense while maintaining data control and security.
To move beyond temporary pilot projects and paper strategies, Owerczuk called for the creation of a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence with an investment budget, executive authority, and a mandate lasting at least five years. He stressed that the ministry must be headed by a scientist selected by a council of high-level experts rather than a political appointee, ensuring leadership grounded in technological competence.
Looking to the defense sector, Owerczuk pointed to the precedents of the Territorial Defense Forces and the Cyber Defense Forces, proposing a dedicated unit he tentatively called the Polish AI Force. Such a structure would operationalize artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and robotics to safeguard national defense, intelligence, and state security.
Original source: Do Rzeczy (in Polish).
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